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The DataModel (commonly known as game after the global variable used to access it) is the root of Roblox’s parent-child hierarchy. Its direct children are services (such as the Workspace and Lighting) that act as the fundamental components of a Roblox game.

Properties

int64

CreatorId

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the ID of the user or group that owns the Articles/Place|place
CreatorType

CreatorType

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the Enum/CreatorType of the Articles/Place|place, whether the place is owned by a user or a group
int64

GameId

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the ID of the Articles/Multi Place Games|game that the Articles/Place|place running on the server belongs to.
GearGenreSetting

GearGenreSetting

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

Not functional. Historically described the gear permissions of the Articles/Place|place as set on the Roblox website
Genre

Genre

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Not functional. Historically described the Enum/Genre of the Articles/Place|place as set on the Roblox website
bool

IsSFFlagsLoaded

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]
string

JobId

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

A unique identifier for the running game server instance.
int64

PlaceId

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the ID of the Articles/Place|place running on the server
int

PlaceVersion

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the version of the Articles/Place|place the server is running on
string

PrivateServerId

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the private server ID of the server, if the server is a Articles/Creating a VIP Server on Roblox|VIP server or a TeleportService/ReserveServer|reserved server
int64

PrivateServerOwnerId

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

Describes the Player/UserId|UserId of the Player that owns the Articles/Creating a VIP Server on Roblox|VIP server if the server is a VIP server.
string

VIPServerId

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

A string that could identify the current server as a VIP server
int64

VIPServerOwnerId

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

The Player/UserId|UserId of the account who owns the VIP server
Workspace

Workspace

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

A reference to the Workspace service
Instance

lighting

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

Refers to the game’s Lighting service
Workspace

workspace

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

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Inherited from Instance: Show Hide

bool

Archivable

Determines if an Instance can be cloned using /Instance/Clone or saved to file.
string

ClassName

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated]

A read-only string representing the class this Instance belongs to
int

DataCost

[Hidden] [ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

The cost of saving the instance using data persistence.
string

Name

A non-unique identifier of the Instance
Instance

Parent

[NotReplicated]

Determines the hierarchical parent of the Instance
bool

RobloxLocked

[Hidden]

A deprecated property that used to protect CoreGui objects
int64

SourceAssetId

[Hidden] [NotReplicated]
bool

archivable

[Hidden] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]
string

className

[ReadOnly] [NotReplicated] [Deprecated]

Functions

void

BindToClose ( Function function )

Binds a function to be called before the game shuts down.
bool

DefineFastFlag ( string name , bool defaultValue )

int

DefineFastInt ( string name , int defaultValue )

string

DefineFastString ( string name , string defaultValue )

bool

GetEngineFeature ( string name )

Checks the availability of various engine features.
bool

GetFastFlag ( string name )

int

GetFastInt ( string name )

string

GetFastString ( string name )

Array

GetJobsInfo ( )

Returns a table containing basic information about the jobs performed by the task scheduler
string

GetMessage ( )

[Deprecated]

[OBSOLETE]: This function will always return a blank string
Objects

GetObjects ( Content url )

Returns an array of Instance|Instances associated with the given Articles/Content|content URL
Objects

GetObjectsAsync ( Content url )

[Yields]
Array

GetObjectsList ( Array urls )

bool

GetRemoteBuildMode ( )

[Deprecated]

This method is no longer useful and will always return false
string

HttpGetAsync ( string url , HttpRequestType httpRequestType )

[Yields]
string

HttpPostAsync ( string url , string data , string contentType , HttpRequestType httpRequestType )

[Yields]
Objects

InsertObjectsAndJoinIfLegacyAsync ( Content url )

[Yields]
bool

IsGearTypeAllowed ( GearType gearType )

[Deprecated]

Returns whether gear of the given Enum/GearType is permitted to be added to Player|Players’ StarterGear|StarterGears
bool

IsLoaded ( )

Returns true if the client has finished loading the game for the first time
void

Load ( Content url )

Loads a Roblox Place File from a URL.
void

OpenScreenshotsFolder ( )

void

OpenVideosFolder ( )

void

ReportInGoogleAnalytics ( string category , string action , string label , int value )

bool

SavePlace ( SaveFilter saveFilter )

[Yields] [Deprecated]

Saves the current place
bool

SetFastFlagForTesting ( string name , bool newValue )

int

SetFastIntForTesting ( string name , int newValue )

string

SetFastStringForTesting ( string name , string newValue )

void

SetPlaceId ( int64 placeId )

Sets the DataModel/PlaceId of the current game instance to the given placeId
void

SetUniverseId ( int64 universeId )

Sets the DataModel/GameId of the current game instance to the given universeId
void

Shutdown ( )

Shuts down the current game instance

Inherited from ServiceProvider: Show Hide

Instance

FindService ( string className )

Returns the service specified by the given className if it’s already created, errors for an invalid name.
Instance

GetService ( string className )

Returns the service with the requested class name, creating it if it does not exist.
Instance

getService ( string className )

[Deprecated]
Instance

service ( string className )

[Deprecated]

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void

ClearAllChildren ( )

This function destroys all of an Instance’s children.
Instance

Clone ( )

Create a copy of an object and all its descendants, ignoring objects that are not Instance/Archivable|Archivable
void

Destroy ( )

Sets the Instance/Parent property to nil, locks the Instance/Parent property, disconnects all connections, and calls Destroy on all children.
Instance

FindFirstAncestor ( string name )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/Name is equal to the given name.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstAncestorWhichIsA ( string className )

Returns the first ancestor of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance found with the given name.
Instance

FindFirstChildOfClass ( string className )

Returns the first child of the Instance whose Instance/ClassName|ClassName is equal to the given className.
Instance

FindFirstChildWhichIsA ( string className , bool recursive )

Returns the first child of the Instance for whom Instance/IsA returns true for the given className.
Instance

FindFirstDescendant ( string name )

Returns the first descendant found with the given Instance/Name.
Actor

GetActor ( )

Returns the Actor associated with the Instance, usually the first Actor ancestor
Variant

GetAttribute ( string attribute )

Returns the attribute which has been assigned to the given name
RBXScriptSignal

GetAttributeChangedSignal ( string attribute )

Returns an event that fires when the given attribute changes
Dictionary

GetAttributes ( )

Returns a dictionary of string → variant pairs for each of the Instance|Instance’s attributes
Objects

GetChildren ( )

Returns an array containing all of the Instance’s children.
string

GetDebugId ( int scopeLength )

[NotBrowsable]

Returns a coded string of the Instances DebugId used internally by Roblox.
Array

GetDescendants ( )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns an array containing all of the descendants of the instance
string

GetFullName ( )

Returns a string describing the Instance’s ancestry.
RBXScriptSignal

GetPropertyChangedSignal ( string property )

Get an event that fires when a given property of an object changes.
bool

IsA ( string className )

[CustomLuaState]

Returns true if an Instance’s class matches or inherits from a given class
bool

IsAncestorOf ( Instance descendant )

Returns true if an Instance is an ancestor of the given descendant.
bool

IsDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

Returns true if an Instance is a descendant of the given ancestor.
void

Remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Sets the object’s Parent to nil, and does the same for all its descendants.
void

SetAttribute ( string attribute , Variant value )

Sets the attribute with the given name to the given value
Instance

WaitForChild ( string childName , double timeOut )

[CustomLuaState] [CanYield]

Returns the child of the Instance with the given name. If the child does not exist, it will yield the current thread until it does.
Objects

children ( )

[Deprecated]

Returns an array of the object’s children.
Instance

clone ( )

[Deprecated]
void

destroy ( )

[Deprecated]
Instance

findFirstChild ( string name , bool recursive )

[Deprecated]
Objects

getChildren ( )

[Deprecated]
bool

isA ( string className )

[Deprecated] [CustomLuaState]
bool

isDescendantOf ( Instance ancestor )

[Deprecated]
void

remove ( )

[Deprecated]

Events

RBXScriptSignal

AllowedGearTypeChanged ( )

[Deprecated]

Fires when SetGearSettings is called with a different value for allowedGenres
RBXScriptSignal

GraphicsQualityChangeRequest ( bool betterQuality )

Fires when the user prompts and increase or decrease in graphics quality using the hotkeys
RBXScriptSignal

ItemChanged ( Instance object , string descriptor )

[Deprecated]

Fires when a property of any object in the DataModel is changed
RBXScriptSignal

Loaded ( )

Fires on the client when the game finishes loading for the first time
RBXScriptSignal

ScreenshotReady ( string path )

RBXScriptSignal

ScreenshotSavedToAlbum ( string filename , bool success , string message )

Inherited from ServiceProvider: Show Hide

RBXScriptSignal

Close ( )

Fires when the current place is exited.
RBXScriptSignal

CloseLate ( )

Fired immediately after the ServiceProvider/Close signal is fired.
RBXScriptSignal

ServiceAdded ( Instance service )

Fired when a service is created.
RBXScriptSignal

ServiceRemoving ( Instance service )

Fired when a service is about to be removed.

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RBXScriptSignal

AncestryChanged ( Instance child , Instance parent )

Fires when the Instance/Parent property of the object or one of its ancestors is changed.
RBXScriptSignal

AttributeChanged ( string attribute )

Fires whenever an attribute is changed on the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

Changed ( string property )

Fired immediately after a property of an object changes.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildAdded ( Instance child )

Fires after an object is parented to this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

ChildRemoved ( Instance child )

Fires after a child is removed from this Instance.
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantAdded ( Instance descendant )

Fires after a descendant is added to the Instance
RBXScriptSignal

DescendantRemoving ( Instance descendant )

Fires immediately before a descendant of the Instance is removed.
RBXScriptSignal

Destroying ( )

Fires immediately before the instance is destroyed via Instance/Destroy.
RBXScriptSignal

childAdded ( Instance child )

[Deprecated]

Callback

Tuple

OnClose ( )

[Deprecated]

Invoked before the game is shut down. When this callback returns, or the timeout period is hit, the game finishes shutting down.

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